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In the Dressing Room

artist Louis Kronberg (Boston, 1872 - 1965, Palm Beach)

Date1910

Place MadeParis, Ile-de-France, France, Europe

MediumPastel on canvas

Dimensions60 x 49 cm (23 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP1e10

eMuseum ID720109

EmbARK ObjectID10832

TMS Source ID99

Last Updated10/3/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella and her friend, artist Louis Kronberg, shared a love of the stage. Kronberg painted many performing artists including this Parisian ballerina lacing up her shoes. Mrs. Gardner collected several of Kronberg’s paintings and works on paper and displayed them in the Museum. Kronberg also assisted Isabella in acquiring several works by French artists including Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet.

BibliographyNotesPhilip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 196.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 20.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 37 (16 May 1965), p. 2.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 128.
Autumn Brown, "The Misattributed Ballerina: Louis Kronberg or Edgar Degas?" Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 15 November 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/misattributed-ballerina-louis-kronberg-or-edgar-degas

MarksNotesInscribed (lower left): PARIS 1910 - LOUIS KRONBERG-
Inscribed in pencil (on label affixed to the back of the frame, left): Kronberg / Ballet

ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection 1910-1915.